Anyone know where this Alternate Dolphins Logo is from?

The Lions, Bears, and Bills logo look like art?

So if I draw a stickman thats art?

They look no different than any other logo. All they do is show an animated view of their teams name in most cases.

I don't buy the cartoon thing one bit.

 

Sorry but while you dont want to diss the tradition, it does come off that way even still. Although you always do it in a fairly tastefull manner, I cannot help but think that everytime you see a Dolphins shirt, or anything with the logo on it, you cringe.

So the Dolphin has a helmet and you think it looks out of place. Well my question is this. Doesn't a Dolphin look out of place as a name for a football team? Or a Raven, Bear, Buffalo, Bronco? I mean it's not like any of them can actually play the game right?

Hopefully your not getting bent out of shape because the thread kind of went south? You do have a history of yearly I would love to see a logo change just like I have one that says go back to the original...

 

I would rather see the old logo but it did not go thru drastic change. The Patsies would be an example of drastic.

It was much easier to swallow with the change JJ made because the only thing they did was try to make the Dolphin look a little tougher. Nothing HUGE whatsoever was changed

 

They kept the basic design so they really did not CHANGE it. JJ just wanted the Dolphin to look tougher. I never wanted that but its not like they took the helmet off or anything, which would really piss me off...

 

I don't know, but it kinda looks like my tuna logo.

The only reason its different, is cuz its a tuna.
Black, because its a blackfin tuna, and in part to Parcells being executive VPFO. If the sun was orange, He'd look like a big, fat, halloween tuna.

Otherwise the team logo is like skin, changing it would feel like im in someone else's.

 

OK seeing as I brought the logo here, I figured I should chime in. As much as I like my avatar its just that, an avatar. There is something to be said for holding on to tradition. when the Pats and Broncos changed their logo it was because their old ones were very very out of date. Not the case with our logo, and IMO the logo in my avatar looks far more like a cartoon than our current logo. I mean when we are talking about cartoons we do realize that we call a bunch of men a sea mammal right? So realism kind of goes out the window.

 

The Bears logo is a C but the Lions and Bills logo's, most absolutely 100 percent positively, could be placed right into a cartoon and interact with anything the artist wants it to. The lion is more of a stickman figure and thats where a ton of cartoons come from.

But my main point is those three are no more art than the Dolphins logo.

I dont see how you figure that the Dolphin could be placed in a cartoon any sooner than a lot of the NFL logos. This is simply wrong.

The way the logo looks has everything to do with it Skape. It had nothing to do with success because when I became a Dolphins fan they sucked. It is rich with tradition but for me the success came way after I saw and fell for.....the logo, the colors, and the fact that they were from Miami. I am a believer in keeping some things forever when they mean something to me.

You surely are in the minority so somethings not right. I mean I dont think people are sitting there saying man that logo looks like a cartoon so thats my team. A lot of people becoming fans of the team actually think it's cool, or awesome even....

 

I like the logo a lot and wouldn't be a fan of changing it. Why change something that's been there for so long? It may be just me but I'm not a fan of change especially for something that I've known for a long time. Changing the logo is like changing the team, gives it a whole new image and just isn't the same IMO.

 

i like the current logo just fine

 

We're the Dolphins for godssake. Our logo is never going to strike fear in the hearts of anyone. Just leave it the way it is.

 

Nicely put.

 

This has reached absurd status.

You just compared a Blue Buffalo with a red streak coming off it's horns as an example of some reality based design while a blue Dolphin with a helmet (which represents a football team mind you so it makes perfect sense) as unrealistic or cartoonish. A Blue buffalo with a red acceleration streak eminating from it's horn is just as cartoonish. There's nothing wrong with that either because it's a friggin logo.

THe Racoon couldn't have been more correct deeming the cartoon argument as absurd.

All this being said, if the face on the Dolphin is really what has people so unbelievably obsessed then lose it. I'm fine with going back to the old version it's just the unending talk from a few about how our entire identity has sucked from the beginning and how we should change everything that drives me nuts.

 

Ok now lets take a good look at the Barfalo logo.




It can easily be made out as an eye, but the point here is we're talking about cartoons and my friend cartoons are of the imagination. There are only a few rules of thumb...


next.

 

Because they are garbage, lol. They are just not good at all and need a fresh start.

 

Come on man! Everyone has been fairly nice about this.

Let me be clear and say this place is much better with you as a member. I would not want you to leave!

The change the logo thread has gotten you into many a heated argument in the past so maybe its just a good time to let that go?

 

I am with you Skape. The logo is cheesy and cartoonish. Many people are just resistant to change.

It isn't that others don't agree with you- its just that the only people that bother to reply are those who are against it.

Stephen Ross will leave his mark on this franchise and it is very likely that will include and update to our image.

I'm sure there will always be people who will whine about it and claim that we need to stick to 'tradition,' but those are the same people who will flock to the pro shops immediately after the change and buy jerseys..

 

You spoke for others four times.... lol

 

Not sure

I hate it when teams change logo's Dolphins logo is worldwide known and pretty cool i think!

But as an alternative logo it's pretty impressive i think.

 

Please do not judge others here, by your own standards. You impinge my honor with a statement like that and in here, at this site, we don't play like that. Please speak for yourself and not others.

 

Why is this logo being called an "alternate logo", like it's an official thing? We have alternate jerseys, but that's something that is offical and real. This "new" logo is just a submission by the poster and not anything that has been deemed offical. Stop calling it an alternate logo... change the title to: Anyone know where this Dolphins avatar is from?

 

This is a logo that somebody drew up, it's fake. We the true Dolphins fans love our logo and there is no reason to change it.

 

Yeah.. only true fans like the logo we currently have over any other possibility. It's what being a true fan is all about, really.

Ugh, I hate that term.

 

IMO it currently looks like a Pokémon. Exhibit A

 

its not an official logo, looks like someone took the protype alternative and added some twists to it in photoshop.

I think it looks awkward to me and the torso looks like it is bent to far....

My opinion though....

d-1

 

Dude you don't mess with tradition.....I think Mr Ross will mess it up, but if it was me, I would leave our uniform, colors and tradition alone

 

Is it really all that surprising, or outlandish, that fans of any hardcore variety, would be somewhat contentious to altering their team's 43 year old insignia?

 

I'm sorry for 'impinging your honor.' I thought this was a Dolphins message board, not Full Metal Jackets.

Come on- we are talking about logos and uniforms.If you or anyone else was offended by the statement I made then I suggest some anger management sessions may be suitable.

 

seriously? i dont understand how anyone could look at our logo as cartoony. take the helmet off him its just a regular dolphin?

 

that's actually a horn, not an eye....

 

The horn is above it. The part I circled is an eye....

It also has a lot to do with our imagination.

 

Just to be a niggling pedant, the Colts got their horseshoe and UCLA shoulder loop in the 50s (when they were formed, right?), the Cowboys got their basic look in 1964 (one of the best uniforms ever IMO), and the Packers got theirs in the early 60s (including the G, which has never looked good to me, and the deep forest green, which is perfect) courtesy of Lombardi.

Trying to make the Dolphin look mean was kind of ridiculous in my opinion. But the old dolphins don't look that great either up close IMO--kind of like they've been hung on a wall and dried out for a few weeks.

I am basically hostile to uniform changes, but it's striking how both Lombardi at GB and Parcells at NE and the Jets made major changes. Clearly they both thought the uniform made a big difference.

 

Whatever. Either way we wear turqoise.